FUSE is Filesystem in Userspace. With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. The OS X version is called OSXFUSE. OSXFUSE installs a kernel module on your Mac that allows user program to access a variety of non-native filesystems. In our case we will be using SSHFS to access files on our server over the SSH protocol. To do this we will install OSXFUSE and a GUI tool called MacFusion that will make it easy to mount SSHFS filesystems on our desktop.